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the carolina w atchman vol viii third series salisbury n c mabch 15 1877 no 22 the first glass bv it a carroll co tempter go tuui l not the wine so'r leuipl ic innocenl and j.rm lp taste i oe drop : ah yes nne sup might !>.â– in ruin innii tiitt day lie can nil in vou handle wine n sparkles to the youthlul eye bui ii i how blttw toth lie know w bat po-stons in its beauty he twas the lirst glass thai sealed the doom of man â– roung nnd blooming youth mnl m-nt tii in in on early grave ; tempter beware and heed tin truth ; nli iiiink how deep hi serpent lurks w iiimi lhe wine cup's rudd glow and 1 not hold thai to his lips w uicb brings bul sorrow death una woe little feet in castle halls or cottage homes wherever guileless childhood mams li there is nothing half so sweet as busy tread of little feet the sighing breeze the ocean's roar the purling rill the organ's power all stir the soul but not so deep as tiny trend of little fe t when forth we po at early mora to meet the world and brave it scorn adown the garden walks so neat we see the prints of little feet at eve when homeward we repair with aching limbs and brow of care the voices ring oui i li ai and -Â« eel then conic the rush of little feet the knives are lost the dishes stray 1 in tools are spirited away and w lien wc go the lost to seek wc i .- 1 k i the trail of little f et but when the angel ib ath hath come and called our darlings from their home oppressive silence reigns complete : we mi the sound ol little feet then tools are i*afe no dishes rtray mn doors go shimming ail the da : hut <-. twould i_i\c us pleasure sweet to hear again those nois feet soft night hath < â€¢ me all are ash i p yes nil bul ine ; i . igil i ei p il'.i-h ! hush ! in heart and cease to beat was that the step of little f ct . yes mother ti i ik softi ned i read of him you miss and mourn as dead and often when your sleep i sweet you'll dream of hearing little feet and when this pilgrimage is o'er and you approach thai blissful shore the first to run your iei to greet will be your darling's little feet ____â– _-* m 1 milm-mh j-.1b *._,Â«â€¢ _..â– -.___. w-tk__3sl-__-5 from tie new voik otaervcr ths courtship 0 rev henry blazesford by mil -*. -â€¢ bobmss ix fol'i ciiaitkits m ii if it is supposed that darlington is going to accept this engagement without taking any further notice ofit than that shown 1 y painting and papering tiie in side of the parsonage it is a mistake : the ma ter settled that faith halstead was to le mrs henry blakesford their minister's wife the two became at once town pn petty and with an intensity of interest for the most part kindly all their past their present and their future wore closely identified with the past present an 1 future of every man woman and child in the parish the antecedents of their pastor thev had become faiuilliar with at the time of his settlement bur of miss halstead's they were in entire ignorance nor could the most ad riot questioner lenrn more than that she had beeu bun at the west was an orphan and now had only a few distant relatives living she did not seem to incline to make the slightest difference in her way of living ou account of her en gagement she wont regularly to school studied as faithfully at home and was no more constant or demonstrative in any of her public religious duties she had dou ble the number of invitations out to tea and accepted ihem as she had previously when some of her school duties did not prevent the most fault-finding person in darlington could not say that she gave herself a single air that is the way anv assumption of diiniitv would have been characterized on account ofl her expected position aud yet ou the ! whole darlington wag not satisfied it j wanted from her something it did not re | ceive so it took suddenly to asking j questions had mr blakesford made a j mistake did his sermons begin to show it ? i>id his prayers f had he made as many parish calls ince his engagement f had ik not exchanged more frequently i j Â« as he beginning to choose from among iii society such persons a.s he would like i to see frequently at the parsonage ? did i â€¢"' spend too much ii visiting faith i halstead . what kind of an engagement ring did die wear that plain gold hoop tliat made its appearance on the little finger of his lefl baud one sabbath where i li'l that conic from ? wasn't it feminine for a minister under any circumstances ' to wear a ring r might it not be even l worse than thai i positive sin to set in example of such extravagance from the pulpit .' one day deacon brent met his pastor in the street and said to him : parson there's my mate black pet i it you've got ii good firm grip on the i hues go she won't he a-runuing away ' nv'tli yon and fancy a team you may have her any time and welcome it does a an good to spin along two-forty once in a while even if lie is a minister and i i ii mite afeard but you'll put as much punk into your sannons alter she's spun mm ov ., d ij*,.s ,,,. s(1 as you would j j1 walkin roun town you're welcome to mir anyway i t and mr blakesford had thanked his rood i deacon had borrowed tiie team and i';"1 brought faith halstead home from a two-forty spin with eyes softer and browner than ever they had gone out through darlington's principal streets on a saturday afternoon not a house had they passed but some one had noticed them and it was only a few of the most ill-natured who had said : well if mr blakesford can go out a riding so near the sabbath i hope he has finished his sermon one of the last things tliat gets into a young minister's head is that he must work was there any flaw to find in that ser \ nion after the first ride mr jones the coiner grocer thought there was he said to mr short the tin smith next door that it wanted miction ' it wasn't well digested and no discourse could tell that hadn't been studied it wasn't practical and it wasn't doctrinal the business of a minister was to bring sinners to christ and anything that in terfered with that was loss loss to the church and loss to th church meant no new aduiissious among the roll of its members and no new admissions meant higher taxes on those who had to support it he wondered with a very implica ting look whether the time ever would conie when a minister would feel that he was only a paid servant of the church and every hour of liis time ought to be spent in advancing its interest quite as much as he expected his clerk to spend his time in advancing the business of tlie stoic the mistake ministers particular 'â– ly young ones made was they didn't see the legality of tlie money binding earn your pay belonged as much to them as to any other class of men who fingered other people's dollars and cents it might be lining it bul he couldn't see it to go off saturday afternoon with deacon brent's fast mare aud he gone two hours on tlie stretch but for 1 is part a little more work put into that discourse would have made i clearer and more logical or at hast given ii a fervor whicli would awaken dying souls and bring them into the kingdom to all of whicli mr short tin-smith ! had anwered wall uow brother jones they were loth members of the church : aud of course brothers you know our minister is a courting and we all ou us - tin-smith had his third wife â€” remember that ic needed a little allowance made for i us u such times then let him go on part pay until he's married mr jones had answered luck i ily however the rev henry and his be trothored remained ignorant of this opin i ion and made no oiler in that direction j ou the whole considering tlie delicacy \ and the difficulty of the situation affairs are not proceeding inimically for the hap i piuess of the two so deeply concerned ; if faith halstead is only let alone mr ] blakesford will take care of himself so , he writes to his mother-aunt to whom his ! weekly letters go crowded with details he j can give no one else -. i'm afraid they are so good and con siderate of me that there is mischief brewing it's too much this unparalleled , let-iiloiie-iiess to ask of any mortal par ish my shoulders are broad i can bear an thing or go but mv dove i would not have a feather of her beautiful plumage nulled for all the parishes in the world deeply in love you know i confessed to you he was pray forgive him ! yes there was mischief brewing audit came at last faith halstead had gone home from her school iircd and nervous the children had been full of fun and the lessons were of course poorly committed sitting quietly iu her room waiting for her was mrs deacon hatch mrs hatch was the active deaconess of the church a woman instant in every good word and deed grave not a slanderer sober faithful in all things this last apostolic description 1 am obliged to put behind an interroga tion mark but this is straying from my story mrs hatch's was a faded face it had once heen pretty but it had been noticed iu the parish that in proportion as the physical faded the spiritual blos somed into new life or into fresher activi ty her's had heen a prominent position in the parish president of far too many things it don't do iu this democratic equalizing country to rest the supreme power too long in one person unfortunately between these two wo men there had been from the very first an antagonism john hatch jr was a dunce and liis want of pi*ogress iu his stu dies was attributed entirely to want of proper care on the teacher's part polite little messages wiih hidden sharp points had been often passed between teacher and pan ut so on the whole faith hal stead was not glad to find mrs hatch waiting for her ; besides john had been tlie most stupidly incorrigible pupil to day faith knew if be was spoken of she should be apt to say what she felt hul mrs hatch's present visit was for a very different object nor was she long in making it known wc are to have to-morrow she said a meeting for the purpose of electing of ficers to till the places in our branch of the woman's board and 1 called to see if we might not have the pleasure of appoint ing the minister's wife the president i did not know that our minister had a wife said faith smiling benignly but eonibattively ; if he has i should think she would be the proper person to con sult vou arc very modest my dear miss halstead ; and though you and i have never spoken freely on the subject â€” aud the deaconess bridled a little â€” still we both of us know just what is meaut we hope on all accounts with a decided emphasis on all that you will occupy that important place before long wliich the president of the branch woman's board or the other both the zeal you have shown as a theacher dishonest mrs hatch makes us hope that you will prove a most able and efficient co-worker in our master's vineyard we long to welcome you to all the positions of care and trust thank you mrs hatch and faith stopped while the blood mounted slowly nnd painfully for a moment into her face perhaps it may be as well that we should understand each other for the present i must entirely decline any nomination to any office whatever in the parish surely you will take a class in the sabbath school ?"' said mrs hatch eager ly surely i will not said faith briefly my dear miss halstead please mrs hatch with a depreca tory outholding-of her hands then miss halstead i am to report ti the ladies your utter refusal the least said the soonest mended said faith with a faint smile she could not repress i am extremely sorry i must add ex tremely grieved my dear miss llalstead without taking any notice^of faith's re mark we had hoped â€” indeed i may say further i think we have a right to demand a different course from the wife of our minister mr blakesford is only i young man umuso much depends upon stinting right : he has done well i think i niiiy add excellently well since his settle ment here and we should be extremely sorry to have anything â€” anything inter fere with his work " 1 hope nothing ever will " said faith simply â€¢â€¢ 15.it you must feel miss llalstead that so much depends upon the course you take if you arc to throw cold water on nl the religious interests of the parish if you will not take pari or lot with us iu these groat matters â€” excuse me mrs hatch my answer is linal 1 should prefer not to discuss these things any farther good morning then and mrs hatch rose in very unrighteous anger and left the house was faith halstead right it's an open question with much to be said on cither side certain it is that the young minister looked very grave when faith told him ill that had taken place and mrs deacon hatch lost no time in drop ping into one house after another where she fully recounted with a mingling of many pious regretful interpolations also what had occurred darlington was again in arms and questions for and against were tossed about the parish in a brisker and more combative manner than ever before the subscription for the thor ough repair ofthe parsonage the raising of which had been entrusted to the ladies came to a sudden close : and a cloud rest ed over the pleasant town through which you could not just now discern a glimpse ofthe calm clear sky at this juncture mr blakesford found on his ret urn from an afternoon of not wholly satisfactory parish calls that so phronia kipp was waiting for him he liked miss kipp right heartily gossip she was but what of that she wan alone in the world and this interest of hers was for the most part kindly so now he gave her a warm welcome which she re turned by bursting into tears poor man he little knew what was to conic ! fashionable women fashion kills more women than toil and sorrow obedience to fashion is a greater transgression of the laws of wo man's nature â€” a greater injury to her physical and mental constitution â€” than poverty and neglect the slave woman at her task will live and grow old will see two or three generations of her mistresses fade and pass away washerwoman with scarce a ray of hope to cheer her in her toil will live to see her fashionable sisters die all around her the kitchen j maid is hearty and strong when her lady j has to be nursed like a sick baby it is j a sad truth that the fashion-pampered women are almost worthless for all the ends of human life they have still less power of moral will and quite as little of physical energy they live for no great purpose in life ; they accomplish no worthy ends they are only doll-forms in the hands of milliners and servants to be dressed and fed to order they serve no body and they save nobody they write no books they set no rich examples of virtue and womanly life if they rear children servants and nurses do all save to con ceive and to give them birth and when reared whaf are they ? what do they ever amount to but weak scions of the old stock ? who ever heard of a fash ionable woman's child exhibiting any vir tue or power of mind for which it became eminent ? read the biographies of our great and good men and women not one of them had a fashionable mother they nearly all sprang from strong-minded women who had about as little to do with ' fashion as with the changing clouds i jpolitigal o 'â– â€” inaugural address of presi dent hayes washington d c march 5 the day is raw with snow flakes joseph e john ston and ex-senator key of tennessee are most prominently mentionod'for the cabinet from tiie south carl schurtz will have a place the new government will be emotional the following is the address : fellow citizens â€” we have assem bled to repeat the public ceremonial be gun by washington observed by all my predecessors and now a time honored cus tom which marks the commencement of a new term of the presidential otliee call ed to the duties of this great trust i pro ceed in compliance with usage to announce some ofthe leading principles on the sub jects that now chiefly engage the public attention by which it is my desire to be guided iu the discharge of these duties i sliall not undertake to lay down irrevo cably principles or measures of adminis tration but rather to speak of the motive which should animate us and to suggest certain important ends to be attained in accordance with our institutions and es sential to the welfare of our country at the outset of the disscussions which pre ceded the recent presidential election it seemed to me fitting that i should fully make known my sentiments in regard to several of the important questions which then appeared to demand the considera tion of the country following the ex ample and in part the language of one of my predecessors i wish now when every motive for misrepresentation has passed away to repeat what i said before the e lection trusting that my countrymen will candidly weigh and understand it and that they will feel assured that the senti ments declared in accepting the nomina tion for the presidency will be the stand ard of my conduct in the path before me charged as i know with the grave and dif ficult task of carrying them out in the practical administration of the government so far as depends under the constitution and laws on the chief executive of the nation the permanent pacification of the country upon such principles and such measures as will secure the complete pro tection of all its citizens in the free en joyment of all their constitutional rights is now tlie one subject in our public affairs which all thoughtful and patriotic citizens regard as of supreme importance many ofthe calamitous effects of the tremend ous revolution which has passed over the southern states till remain the im measurable benefits which will surely fol low sooner or later the hearty and gen erous acceptance ofthe legitimate results of that revolution have not yet been real ized difficult and embarrassing ques tions meet us at the thresh-hold of this subject the peopleof these states are still impoverished and the inestimable blessing of wise honest nnd peaceful local self government is not fully enjoyed what ever difference of opinion may exist as to the fact the cause of this condition of things is clear that in the progress of events the time has come when such gov ernment is the imperative necessity requir ed by all the varied interests pnblic and private of these states but it must not ik forgotten that only a local government which recognizes and maintains inviolate the rights of all is a true self government with respect to the two distinct races whose peculiar relations to each other have brought upon us tlie deplorable com plications and perplexities whicli exist in those states it must be a government which guards the interest of both races carefully and equally it must be a gov ernment which submits loyally and heart ily to the constitution and the laws the laws of the nation and the laws of the states themselves accepting and obeying faithfully the whole constitution as it is resting upon this sure and substantial foundation the superstructure of benefi cient local governments can be built up and uot otherwise in furtherance of such obedience to the letter and spirit of the constitution und in behalf of all that its attainment implies all so-called party in terests lose their apparent importance aud party lines may well be permitted to hide into insignificance the question we lmve to consider for the immediate welfare of those stiites of the union is the quest ion of government or no government of social order and all the peaceful industries and the happiness that belong to it or a re turn to barbarism it i a question in which every citizen of the nation is deeply interested and with respect to which we ought not to be â€” in a partisan sense â€” either republicans or democrats but fel low-citizens and fellow men to whom the interests of a common country and a com mon humanity are dear the sweeping revolution ofthe entire labor system of a large portion of our country and the ad vance of four millions of people from a condition of servitude to that of citizen ship upon an equal footing with their for mer masters could not occur without pre senting problems of the gravest moment to be dealt with by the emancipated race by their former masters and by the gen eral government the author of the eman cipation act that it was a wise just and providential act fraught with good for all concerned is now generally conceded throughout the conntry : that a moral ol li jj.ii . gation rests upon the national government to employ its constitutional power and in flneuce to establish the rights of tlie peo ple it has emancipated and to protect them in the enjoyment of those rights when they are infringed or assarted is also generally admitted the evils which afflict the southern states an only be re moved or remedied by tlie united and harmonious efforts of both races actuated by motives of mutual sympathy and re gard ; and while in duty bound and fully determined to protect the rights of all by constitutional means in the disposal of my administration i am sincerely anxious to use every legitimate influence in favor of honest and efficient local self govern ment as the true resource of those states for the promotion of the contentment and jirw-perity e thaw citizeua in the effort i shall make to accomplish this purpose i ask the cordiul co-operation of all who cherish an interest in the welfare of the country trusting that party ties and the prejudice of race will be freely surrender ed in behalf of the great purpose to be ac complished in the important work of restoring the south it is uot the political situation alone that merits attention the materia development of that section ofthe country has been arrested by the social and political revolution through which it has passed and now needs and desrves tlie considerate care of the national govern ment within the just limits prescribed by the constitution and wise public econo my but at the basis of all prosperity for that as well as for every other part of the country lies the improvement of the intellectual nnd moral condition of the people universal suffrage should rest upon universal education to this end liberal and permanent provision should lie made for the support of free schools by the state governments and if need be supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority let me assure my countrymen of the southern states that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interests the inter ests of the white aud of the colored peo ple both and equally and to put forth my best efforts in behalf of a civil policy which will forever wipe out in our political af fairs the color line and the distinction be tween north and south to the end that we may have not merely a united north aud a united south but a united country i ask the attention of the public to the paramount necessity of reform in our civil service a reform not merely as to certain abuses nnd practices of so-called official patronage whicli have conic to lmve the sanction of usage in the several depart ments of our government but a change in the system of appointment itself a reform that shall be thorough radical and com plete a return to the principles and prac tices of the founders of the government they neither expected nor desired that public officers should owe their whole service to the government and to the peo ple they meant that the officer should be secure in his tenure as long as his person id character remained untarnished and the performance of his duties satisfactory they held that appointments to ollice were not to be made nor expected merely as rewards for partizan services nor merely on the nomination of members of con gress is being entitled in any respect to lhe control of such appointments the fact that both ofthe great political parties of the country in declaring their principles prior to the election gave a prominent place to the subject of reform of our civil service recognizing and strongly urging its necessity in terms almost identical in their specific import with tliose i have here employed must be accepted as a conclusive argument in behalf of these measures it must be regarded as the expression of the united voice and will of the whole country upon this subject and both political partiesare virtually pledged to give it their unreserved support the president of the united states of necessi ty owes his election to ollice to the suit rage and zealous labors of a political party the members of which cherish with ardor and regard as of essential importance the principles of their party organization but he should strive to be always mind ful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves the country best in furtherance of the reform we seek and in other respects a change of great importance i recommend an amendment to the constitution prescribing a term of six years for the presidential ollice and forbidding a re-election with respect to the financial condition ofthe country i shall not attempt an ex tended history ofthe embarrassment and prostration which we have su tiered dur ing the past three years the depression in all our varied commercial and manufac turing interests in the country which be gan in september l*-7 still continues it is very gratifying however to be able to say that tliere are indications around us of a coming change to prosperous times upon the currency question inti mately connected as it is with this topic i may be permitted to repeat here the statement made in my letter of accept ance that in my judgment the feeling of uncertainty inseparable from an irre deemable paper currency with its flucta tions of values is one of the greatest ob stacles to a return to prosperous times the only safe paper currency is one which r ts upon a coin basis and is at all times ( and promptly convertible into coin i adhere to the views heretofore expressed by me in favor of congressional legislation in liehalf of an early resumption of specie payment aud i am satisfied not only that this is wise but that the interests as well as the public sentiments of the country imperatively demand it passing from these remarks upon the condition of our own conntry to consider our relations with other lands we are reminded by the international complications abroad threat ening the peace of europe that our tradi tional rule of non-interference in the af fairs of foreign nations has proved of great value in past times and ought to be strictly observed the policy inaugura ted by my predecessor president t'rant of submitting to arbitration grave ques tions of dispute between ourselves and foreign powers points to a new and in comparably the best instrumentality for the preservation of peace and good will as i believe becomes a beneficient example of the course to be pursued in similar emer gencies by other nations if unhappily questions of difference should at any time during the period of my administration arise between the united states and any foreign government it will certainly be my disposition and my hope to aid in their settlement i:i the same peaceful aud hon orable way thus securing to our country the great blessings id peace and mutual good offices with all the nations of the world fellow citizens we have readied the elt.se of a political contest marked by the excitement which usually attends the contests between great political parties whose members espouse and advocate with earnest faith their respective creeds the circumstances wore perhaps in uo respect extraordinary save in ihe close ness and uncertainty of the result for the first time in the history of the coun try it has been deemed best in view of the peculiar circumstances of the case that the objections and questions in dispute with reference to the counting of the elec toral votes should be referred to the de cision of ii tribunal appointed for this purpose that tribunal established by law for this sole purpose its members ill of them men of long established repu tation for integrity and intelligence and with the exception of those who are also members of the supreme judiciary cho sen equally from both political parties its deliberations enlightened by the research and the arguments of able counsel was entitled to the fullest confidence of the american people its decisions lmve been patiently waited for and accepted as legally conclusive by the general judg ment ofthe public for the present opin ion will widely vary as to the wisdom of the several conclusions announced by that tribunal this is to be anticipated in every instance where matters of dis pute are made the subject of arbitration under the forms of law human judg ment is never unerring and is rarely re garded as otherwise than wrong by the unsuccessful party in the contest the fact that two great political parties have in this way settled a dispute in regard to which good men differ as to the facts and the law no less than as to the proper course to be pursued in solving the ques tion in controversy is an occasion for general rejoicing upon one point there is entire unanimity in public sentiment that conflicting claims to the presidency must be amicably and peaceably adjusted and that when so adjusted the general acquiescence of the nation ought surely to follow it has been reserved for a government ofthe people where the right of suffrage is univesal to give to the world the first example in history of a great nation in the midst of a struggle of opposing parties for power hushing its party tumults to yield the issue of the contest to adjustment according to the forms of law looking for the guidance of that divine hand by which the destinies of nations and individuals are shaped i call upon you senators representatives judges and fellow citizens here and everywhere to unite with me in an earnest effort to secure to our country the blessings not only of material prosperity but of justice i'eace and union a union depending not upon the constraint of force but upon the loving devotion of a free people and that ill things may be so ordered und settled upon the best and surest founda tions that peace and happiness truth and justice religion and piety may be estab lished among us for all generations luxury the cause of national decay frugality of manners is the nourish ment and strength of bodies politic it is that by which they grow and subsist until they are corrupted by luxury â€” the natural cause of their decaj and ruin < f this wc have examples in the persians laccthemonians and romans : not to men tion many later governments which have sprung up continued a while and then perished by the same natural causes but the.-e are it seems of no use to us and in spite of them we are in a fair way of becoming ourselves another useless ex ample to future ages simplicity of manners may be more easily preserved in a republic than a monarchy : but if once lost may be soon er recovered in a monarchy the example of acmii being of greater efficacy either to i reform or to corrupt a people : that alone i were sufficient to discountenance the â– wearing of gold or silver either in clothes : or equipage nnd if the same were pro hibited by law the saving so mud bul lion would be the smallest benefit id such an institution there being nothing more apt to debase the virtue and good sense of our gentry of both sexes than the trif ling vanity of apparel which we have learned from france and which has had such visible 01 consequences oo the genius of that people wiser nations have made it their care to shut out this folly by se vere laws and penalties and its spreading among us can forebode no good if there lÂ»e any truth in the observation of one of the ancients that the direct way to ruin a man is to dress him up in fine clothes rut we act doomed to be undone neither the plain reason of the thing nor the experience of past ages nor the ex amples we have before our eves ran re strain us from imitating not to say sur passing the most corrupt and ruined peo ple in those very points of luxury that ruined them our gaming our operas our masquerades are in spite of our debts and poverty become the wonder of our neighbors if there be any man so void of all thought and common-sense as not to see where this must end let him but compare what venice was at the league of cambray with what it is at present and he will be convinced how truly those fashionable pa-times are calculated to de press and ruin a nation it is not to be believed what influence public diversions have on the spirit and manners of a people the creeks uiselj saw this and made a very serious affair of their public sports for the same rea son it will perhaps seem worthy the care of our legislature to regulate the public diversions by an absolute prohibi tion of those which have a direct tendency to corrupt our morals as well as by a re formation of the drama which when rightly managed is such a noble enter tainment and gave those fine lessons of morality and good sense to the athenians of old and to our british gentry above a century ago ; but for these last ninety yens hath entertained us for the most part with such wretched things as spoil instead of improving the taste and man ners of the audience those who arc at tentive to such propositious only as may till their pockets will probably slight these things as trifles below the care of the legislature but i am sure all honest thinking men must lament to see their country run headlong into all those lux urious follies which it is evident have been fatal to other nations and will un doubtedly prove fatal to us also if a time ly stop be not put to them â€” berkeley's essays i ii â– i l_-_l â€” llll-h lllllll i lllilllll hi 11-ii.mi ii all so rt s a home-ruler a man's wife moody is jus forty and holds his forty well v 1 herald the millennium has begun in baltimore oysters are fifteen cents a bushel there there docs seem to be something cure ons about this blue-glass hawk-eye the residence of gilbert at fremont was burnt hist week there is a new paper to be started in . wilkesboro to be called the will st a company is being formed to siart a road steamer to ply between states ville and fayetteville prof proctor says there are sea-ser pents 130 feet long and he never owned a sea-side hotel either a kentucky debating society lias lieen discussing the question : which is the bottom of a buckwheat cake i a feature of a recent charitable enter tainment at wonsocket r i was a game chess with young people fancifully at tired is the pieces young man court not suffering you can put in youi time to much better ad vantage in courting some nice young wo man saturday sight why should we celebrate washington's birthday more than mine .'" asked a teach er recause in never told a lie shout ed a little boy a sweet little hoy only eight years old walked into a teachers examination at oswego and bawled out '* annie your fellow is down to the house '." mr lames v newman one of the pro prietors of the wilson express has sold out his interest and retired and the ex press will in future be published by a company the prospect for rebuilding davenport female college is says the topic very flattering additional subscriptions are coining in and the timbers are being got ten together for the building a traveler stepped off a train and asked it boy : sonny what is the quickest way to get to the central depot .'" run in answered and set the example by get ting out ofthe wii pretty fast mr beecher says a million dollars is a very poem we desire to stab ti at this article of poem will lie accepted ii ... la te crowd out advertisements to make roi ui for it rochester bemoerat

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the carolina w atchman vol viii third series salisbury n c mabch 15 1877 no 22 the first glass bv it a carroll co tempter go tuui l not the wine so'r leuipl ic innocenl and j.rm lp taste i oe drop : ah yes nne sup might !>.â– in ruin innii tiitt day lie can nil in vou handle wine n sparkles to the youthlul eye bui ii i how blttw toth lie know w bat po-stons in its beauty he twas the lirst glass thai sealed the doom of man â– roung nnd blooming youth mnl m-nt tii in in on early grave ; tempter beware and heed tin truth ; nli iiiink how deep hi serpent lurks w iiimi lhe wine cup's rudd glow and 1 not hold thai to his lips w uicb brings bul sorrow death una woe little feet in castle halls or cottage homes wherever guileless childhood mams li there is nothing half so sweet as busy tread of little feet the sighing breeze the ocean's roar the purling rill the organ's power all stir the soul but not so deep as tiny trend of little fe t when forth we po at early mora to meet the world and brave it scorn adown the garden walks so neat we see the prints of little feet at eve when homeward we repair with aching limbs and brow of care the voices ring oui i li ai and -Â« eel then conic the rush of little feet the knives are lost the dishes stray 1 in tools are spirited away and w lien wc go the lost to seek wc i .- 1 k i the trail of little f et but when the angel ib ath hath come and called our darlings from their home oppressive silence reigns complete : we mi the sound ol little feet then tools are i*afe no dishes rtray mn doors go shimming ail the da : hut id his prayers f had he made as many parish calls ince his engagement f had ik not exchanged more frequently i j Â« as he beginning to choose from among iii society such persons a.s he would like i to see frequently at the parsonage ? did i â€¢"' spend too much ii visiting faith i halstead . what kind of an engagement ring did die wear that plain gold hoop tliat made its appearance on the little finger of his lefl baud one sabbath where i li'l that conic from ? wasn't it feminine for a minister under any circumstances ' to wear a ring r might it not be even l worse than thai i positive sin to set in example of such extravagance from the pulpit .' one day deacon brent met his pastor in the street and said to him : parson there's my mate black pet i it you've got ii good firm grip on the i hues go she won't he a-runuing away ' nv'tli yon and fancy a team you may have her any time and welcome it does a an good to spin along two-forty once in a while even if lie is a minister and i i ii mite afeard but you'll put as much punk into your sannons alter she's spun mm ov ., d ij*,.s ,,,. s(1 as you would j j1 walkin roun town you're welcome to mir anyway i t and mr blakesford had thanked his rood i deacon had borrowed tiie team and i';"1 brought faith halstead home from a two-forty spin with eyes softer and browner than ever they had gone out through darlington's principal streets on a saturday afternoon not a house had they passed but some one had noticed them and it was only a few of the most ill-natured who had said : well if mr blakesford can go out a riding so near the sabbath i hope he has finished his sermon one of the last things tliat gets into a young minister's head is that he must work was there any flaw to find in that ser \ nion after the first ride mr jones the coiner grocer thought there was he said to mr short the tin smith next door that it wanted miction ' it wasn't well digested and no discourse could tell that hadn't been studied it wasn't practical and it wasn't doctrinal the business of a minister was to bring sinners to christ and anything that in terfered with that was loss loss to the church and loss to th church meant no new aduiissious among the roll of its members and no new admissions meant higher taxes on those who had to support it he wondered with a very implica ting look whether the time ever would conie when a minister would feel that he was only a paid servant of the church and every hour of liis time ought to be spent in advancing its interest quite as much as he expected his clerk to spend his time in advancing the business of tlie stoic the mistake ministers particular 'â– ly young ones made was they didn't see the legality of tlie money binding earn your pay belonged as much to them as to any other class of men who fingered other people's dollars and cents it might be lining it bul he couldn't see it to go off saturday afternoon with deacon brent's fast mare aud he gone two hours on tlie stretch but for 1 is part a little more work put into that discourse would have made i clearer and more logical or at hast given ii a fervor whicli would awaken dying souls and bring them into the kingdom to all of whicli mr short tin-smith ! had anwered wall uow brother jones they were loth members of the church : aud of course brothers you know our minister is a courting and we all ou us - tin-smith had his third wife â€” remember that ic needed a little allowance made for i us u such times then let him go on part pay until he's married mr jones had answered luck i ily however the rev henry and his be trothored remained ignorant of this opin i ion and made no oiler in that direction j ou the whole considering tlie delicacy \ and the difficulty of the situation affairs are not proceeding inimically for the hap i piuess of the two so deeply concerned ; if faith halstead is only let alone mr ] blakesford will take care of himself so , he writes to his mother-aunt to whom his ! weekly letters go crowded with details he j can give no one else -. i'm afraid they are so good and con siderate of me that there is mischief brewing it's too much this unparalleled , let-iiloiie-iiess to ask of any mortal par ish my shoulders are broad i can bear an thing or go but mv dove i would not have a feather of her beautiful plumage nulled for all the parishes in the world deeply in love you know i confessed to you he was pray forgive him ! yes there was mischief brewing audit came at last faith halstead had gone home from her school iircd and nervous the children had been full of fun and the lessons were of course poorly committed sitting quietly iu her room waiting for her was mrs deacon hatch mrs hatch was the active deaconess of the church a woman instant in every good word and deed grave not a slanderer sober faithful in all things this last apostolic description 1 am obliged to put behind an interroga tion mark but this is straying from my story mrs hatch's was a faded face it had once heen pretty but it had been noticed iu the parish that in proportion as the physical faded the spiritual blos somed into new life or into fresher activi ty her's had heen a prominent position in the parish president of far too many things it don't do iu this democratic equalizing country to rest the supreme power too long in one person unfortunately between these two wo men there had been from the very first an antagonism john hatch jr was a dunce and liis want of pi*ogress iu his stu dies was attributed entirely to want of proper care on the teacher's part polite little messages wiih hidden sharp points had been often passed between teacher and pan ut so on the whole faith hal stead was not glad to find mrs hatch waiting for her ; besides john had been tlie most stupidly incorrigible pupil to day faith knew if be was spoken of she should be apt to say what she felt hul mrs hatch's present visit was for a very different object nor was she long in making it known wc are to have to-morrow she said a meeting for the purpose of electing of ficers to till the places in our branch of the woman's board and 1 called to see if we might not have the pleasure of appoint ing the minister's wife the president i did not know that our minister had a wife said faith smiling benignly but eonibattively ; if he has i should think she would be the proper person to con sult vou arc very modest my dear miss halstead ; and though you and i have never spoken freely on the subject â€” aud the deaconess bridled a little â€” still we both of us know just what is meaut we hope on all accounts with a decided emphasis on all that you will occupy that important place before long wliich the president of the branch woman's board or the other both the zeal you have shown as a theacher dishonest mrs hatch makes us hope that you will prove a most able and efficient co-worker in our master's vineyard we long to welcome you to all the positions of care and trust thank you mrs hatch and faith stopped while the blood mounted slowly nnd painfully for a moment into her face perhaps it may be as well that we should understand each other for the present i must entirely decline any nomination to any office whatever in the parish surely you will take a class in the sabbath school ?"' said mrs hatch eager ly surely i will not said faith briefly my dear miss halstead please mrs hatch with a depreca tory outholding-of her hands then miss halstead i am to report ti the ladies your utter refusal the least said the soonest mended said faith with a faint smile she could not repress i am extremely sorry i must add ex tremely grieved my dear miss llalstead without taking any notice^of faith's re mark we had hoped â€” indeed i may say further i think we have a right to demand a different course from the wife of our minister mr blakesford is only i young man umuso much depends upon stinting right : he has done well i think i niiiy add excellently well since his settle ment here and we should be extremely sorry to have anything â€” anything inter fere with his work " 1 hope nothing ever will " said faith simply â€¢â€¢ 15.it you must feel miss llalstead that so much depends upon the course you take if you arc to throw cold water on nl the religious interests of the parish if you will not take pari or lot with us iu these groat matters â€” excuse me mrs hatch my answer is linal 1 should prefer not to discuss these things any farther good morning then and mrs hatch rose in very unrighteous anger and left the house was faith halstead right it's an open question with much to be said on cither side certain it is that the young minister looked very grave when faith told him ill that had taken place and mrs deacon hatch lost no time in drop ping into one house after another where she fully recounted with a mingling of many pious regretful interpolations also what had occurred darlington was again in arms and questions for and against were tossed about the parish in a brisker and more combative manner than ever before the subscription for the thor ough repair ofthe parsonage the raising of which had been entrusted to the ladies came to a sudden close : and a cloud rest ed over the pleasant town through which you could not just now discern a glimpse ofthe calm clear sky at this juncture mr blakesford found on his ret urn from an afternoon of not wholly satisfactory parish calls that so phronia kipp was waiting for him he liked miss kipp right heartily gossip she was but what of that she wan alone in the world and this interest of hers was for the most part kindly so now he gave her a warm welcome which she re turned by bursting into tears poor man he little knew what was to conic ! fashionable women fashion kills more women than toil and sorrow obedience to fashion is a greater transgression of the laws of wo man's nature â€” a greater injury to her physical and mental constitution â€” than poverty and neglect the slave woman at her task will live and grow old will see two or three generations of her mistresses fade and pass away washerwoman with scarce a ray of hope to cheer her in her toil will live to see her fashionable sisters die all around her the kitchen j maid is hearty and strong when her lady j has to be nursed like a sick baby it is j a sad truth that the fashion-pampered women are almost worthless for all the ends of human life they have still less power of moral will and quite as little of physical energy they live for no great purpose in life ; they accomplish no worthy ends they are only doll-forms in the hands of milliners and servants to be dressed and fed to order they serve no body and they save nobody they write no books they set no rich examples of virtue and womanly life if they rear children servants and nurses do all save to con ceive and to give them birth and when reared whaf are they ? what do they ever amount to but weak scions of the old stock ? who ever heard of a fash ionable woman's child exhibiting any vir tue or power of mind for which it became eminent ? read the biographies of our great and good men and women not one of them had a fashionable mother they nearly all sprang from strong-minded women who had about as little to do with ' fashion as with the changing clouds i jpolitigal o 'â– â€” inaugural address of presi dent hayes washington d c march 5 the day is raw with snow flakes joseph e john ston and ex-senator key of tennessee are most prominently mentionod'for the cabinet from tiie south carl schurtz will have a place the new government will be emotional the following is the address : fellow citizens â€” we have assem bled to repeat the public ceremonial be gun by washington observed by all my predecessors and now a time honored cus tom which marks the commencement of a new term of the presidential otliee call ed to the duties of this great trust i pro ceed in compliance with usage to announce some ofthe leading principles on the sub jects that now chiefly engage the public attention by which it is my desire to be guided iu the discharge of these duties i sliall not undertake to lay down irrevo cably principles or measures of adminis tration but rather to speak of the motive which should animate us and to suggest certain important ends to be attained in accordance with our institutions and es sential to the welfare of our country at the outset of the disscussions which pre ceded the recent presidential election it seemed to me fitting that i should fully make known my sentiments in regard to several of the important questions which then appeared to demand the considera tion of the country following the ex ample and in part the language of one of my predecessors i wish now when every motive for misrepresentation has passed away to repeat what i said before the e lection trusting that my countrymen will candidly weigh and understand it and that they will feel assured that the senti ments declared in accepting the nomina tion for the presidency will be the stand ard of my conduct in the path before me charged as i know with the grave and dif ficult task of carrying them out in the practical administration of the government so far as depends under the constitution and laws on the chief executive of the nation the permanent pacification of the country upon such principles and such measures as will secure the complete pro tection of all its citizens in the free en joyment of all their constitutional rights is now tlie one subject in our public affairs which all thoughtful and patriotic citizens regard as of supreme importance many ofthe calamitous effects of the tremend ous revolution which has passed over the southern states till remain the im measurable benefits which will surely fol low sooner or later the hearty and gen erous acceptance ofthe legitimate results of that revolution have not yet been real ized difficult and embarrassing ques tions meet us at the thresh-hold of this subject the peopleof these states are still impoverished and the inestimable blessing of wise honest nnd peaceful local self government is not fully enjoyed what ever difference of opinion may exist as to the fact the cause of this condition of things is clear that in the progress of events the time has come when such gov ernment is the imperative necessity requir ed by all the varied interests pnblic and private of these states but it must not ik forgotten that only a local government which recognizes and maintains inviolate the rights of all is a true self government with respect to the two distinct races whose peculiar relations to each other have brought upon us tlie deplorable com plications and perplexities whicli exist in those states it must be a government which guards the interest of both races carefully and equally it must be a gov ernment which submits loyally and heart ily to the constitution and the laws the laws of the nation and the laws of the states themselves accepting and obeying faithfully the whole constitution as it is resting upon this sure and substantial foundation the superstructure of benefi cient local governments can be built up and uot otherwise in furtherance of such obedience to the letter and spirit of the constitution und in behalf of all that its attainment implies all so-called party in terests lose their apparent importance aud party lines may well be permitted to hide into insignificance the question we lmve to consider for the immediate welfare of those stiites of the union is the quest ion of government or no government of social order and all the peaceful industries and the happiness that belong to it or a re turn to barbarism it i a question in which every citizen of the nation is deeply interested and with respect to which we ought not to be â€” in a partisan sense â€” either republicans or democrats but fel low-citizens and fellow men to whom the interests of a common country and a com mon humanity are dear the sweeping revolution ofthe entire labor system of a large portion of our country and the ad vance of four millions of people from a condition of servitude to that of citizen ship upon an equal footing with their for mer masters could not occur without pre senting problems of the gravest moment to be dealt with by the emancipated race by their former masters and by the gen eral government the author of the eman cipation act that it was a wise just and providential act fraught with good for all concerned is now generally conceded throughout the conntry : that a moral ol li jj.ii . gation rests upon the national government to employ its constitutional power and in flneuce to establish the rights of tlie peo ple it has emancipated and to protect them in the enjoyment of those rights when they are infringed or assarted is also generally admitted the evils which afflict the southern states an only be re moved or remedied by tlie united and harmonious efforts of both races actuated by motives of mutual sympathy and re gard ; and while in duty bound and fully determined to protect the rights of all by constitutional means in the disposal of my administration i am sincerely anxious to use every legitimate influence in favor of honest and efficient local self govern ment as the true resource of those states for the promotion of the contentment and jirw-perity e thaw citizeua in the effort i shall make to accomplish this purpose i ask the cordiul co-operation of all who cherish an interest in the welfare of the country trusting that party ties and the prejudice of race will be freely surrender ed in behalf of the great purpose to be ac complished in the important work of restoring the south it is uot the political situation alone that merits attention the materia development of that section ofthe country has been arrested by the social and political revolution through which it has passed and now needs and desrves tlie considerate care of the national govern ment within the just limits prescribed by the constitution and wise public econo my but at the basis of all prosperity for that as well as for every other part of the country lies the improvement of the intellectual nnd moral condition of the people universal suffrage should rest upon universal education to this end liberal and permanent provision should lie made for the support of free schools by the state governments and if need be supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority let me assure my countrymen of the southern states that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interests the inter ests of the white aud of the colored peo ple both and equally and to put forth my best efforts in behalf of a civil policy which will forever wipe out in our political af fairs the color line and the distinction be tween north and south to the end that we may have not merely a united north aud a united south but a united country i ask the attention of the public to the paramount necessity of reform in our civil service a reform not merely as to certain abuses nnd practices of so-called official patronage whicli have conic to lmve the sanction of usage in the several depart ments of our government but a change in the system of appointment itself a reform that shall be thorough radical and com plete a return to the principles and prac tices of the founders of the government they neither expected nor desired that public officers should owe their whole service to the government and to the peo ple they meant that the officer should be secure in his tenure as long as his person id character remained untarnished and the performance of his duties satisfactory they held that appointments to ollice were not to be made nor expected merely as rewards for partizan services nor merely on the nomination of members of con gress is being entitled in any respect to lhe control of such appointments the fact that both ofthe great political parties of the country in declaring their principles prior to the election gave a prominent place to the subject of reform of our civil service recognizing and strongly urging its necessity in terms almost identical in their specific import with tliose i have here employed must be accepted as a conclusive argument in behalf of these measures it must be regarded as the expression of the united voice and will of the whole country upon this subject and both political partiesare virtually pledged to give it their unreserved support the president of the united states of necessi ty owes his election to ollice to the suit rage and zealous labors of a political party the members of which cherish with ardor and regard as of essential importance the principles of their party organization but he should strive to be always mind ful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves the country best in furtherance of the reform we seek and in other respects a change of great importance i recommend an amendment to the constitution prescribing a term of six years for the presidential ollice and forbidding a re-election with respect to the financial condition ofthe country i shall not attempt an ex tended history ofthe embarrassment and prostration which we have su tiered dur ing the past three years the depression in all our varied commercial and manufac turing interests in the country which be gan in september l*-7 still continues it is very gratifying however to be able to say that tliere are indications around us of a coming change to prosperous times upon the currency question inti mately connected as it is with this topic i may be permitted to repeat here the statement made in my letter of accept ance that in my judgment the feeling of uncertainty inseparable from an irre deemable paper currency with its flucta tions of values is one of the greatest ob stacles to a return to prosperous times the only safe paper currency is one which r ts upon a coin basis and is at all times ( and promptly convertible into coin i adhere to the views heretofore expressed by me in favor of congressional legislation in liehalf of an early resumption of specie payment aud i am satisfied not only that this is wise but that the interests as well as the public sentiments of the country imperatively demand it passing from these remarks upon the condition of our own conntry to consider our relations with other lands we are reminded by the international complications abroad threat ening the peace of europe that our tradi tional rule of non-interference in the af fairs of foreign nations has proved of great value in past times and ought to be strictly observed the policy inaugura ted by my predecessor president t'rant of submitting to arbitration grave ques tions of dispute between ourselves and foreign powers points to a new and in comparably the best instrumentality for the preservation of peace and good will as i believe becomes a beneficient example of the course to be pursued in similar emer gencies by other nations if unhappily questions of difference should at any time during the period of my administration arise between the united states and any foreign government it will certainly be my disposition and my hope to aid in their settlement i:i the same peaceful aud hon orable way thus securing to our country the great blessings id peace and mutual good offices with all the nations of the world fellow citizens we have readied the elt.se of a political contest marked by the excitement which usually attends the contests between great political parties whose members espouse and advocate with earnest faith their respective creeds the circumstances wore perhaps in uo respect extraordinary save in ihe close ness and uncertainty of the result for the first time in the history of the coun try it has been deemed best in view of the peculiar circumstances of the case that the objections and questions in dispute with reference to the counting of the elec toral votes should be referred to the de cision of ii tribunal appointed for this purpose that tribunal established by law for this sole purpose its members ill of them men of long established repu tation for integrity and intelligence and with the exception of those who are also members of the supreme judiciary cho sen equally from both political parties its deliberations enlightened by the research and the arguments of able counsel was entitled to the fullest confidence of the american people its decisions lmve been patiently waited for and accepted as legally conclusive by the general judg ment ofthe public for the present opin ion will widely vary as to the wisdom of the several conclusions announced by that tribunal this is to be anticipated in every instance where matters of dis pute are made the subject of arbitration under the forms of law human judg ment is never unerring and is rarely re garded as otherwise than wrong by the unsuccessful party in the contest the fact that two great political parties have in this way settled a dispute in regard to which good men differ as to the facts and the law no less than as to the proper course to be pursued in solving the ques tion in controversy is an occasion for general rejoicing upon one point there is entire unanimity in public sentiment that conflicting claims to the presidency must be amicably and peaceably adjusted and that when so adjusted the general acquiescence of the nation ought surely to follow it has been reserved for a government ofthe people where the right of suffrage is univesal to give to the world the first example in history of a great nation in the midst of a struggle of opposing parties for power hushing its party tumults to yield the issue of the contest to adjustment according to the forms of law looking for the guidance of that divine hand by which the destinies of nations and individuals are shaped i call upon you senators representatives judges and fellow citizens here and everywhere to unite with me in an earnest effort to secure to our country the blessings not only of material prosperity but of justice i'eace and union a union depending not upon the constraint of force but upon the loving devotion of a free people and that ill things may be so ordered und settled upon the best and surest founda tions that peace and happiness truth and justice religion and piety may be estab lished among us for all generations luxury the cause of national decay frugality of manners is the nourish ment and strength of bodies politic it is that by which they grow and subsist until they are corrupted by luxury â€” the natural cause of their decaj and ruin < f this wc have examples in the persians laccthemonians and romans : not to men tion many later governments which have sprung up continued a while and then perished by the same natural causes but the.-e are it seems of no use to us and in spite of them we are in a fair way of becoming ourselves another useless ex ample to future ages simplicity of manners may be more easily preserved in a republic than a monarchy : but if once lost may be soon er recovered in a monarchy the example of acmii being of greater efficacy either to i reform or to corrupt a people : that alone i were sufficient to discountenance the â– wearing of gold or silver either in clothes : or equipage nnd if the same were pro hibited by law the saving so mud bul lion would be the smallest benefit id such an institution there being nothing more apt to debase the virtue and good sense of our gentry of both sexes than the trif ling vanity of apparel which we have learned from france and which has had such visible 01 consequences oo the genius of that people wiser nations have made it their care to shut out this folly by se vere laws and penalties and its spreading among us can forebode no good if there lÂ»e any truth in the observation of one of the ancients that the direct way to ruin a man is to dress him up in fine clothes rut we act doomed to be undone neither the plain reason of the thing nor the experience of past ages nor the ex amples we have before our eves ran re strain us from imitating not to say sur passing the most corrupt and ruined peo ple in those very points of luxury that ruined them our gaming our operas our masquerades are in spite of our debts and poverty become the wonder of our neighbors if there be any man so void of all thought and common-sense as not to see where this must end let him but compare what venice was at the league of cambray with what it is at present and he will be convinced how truly those fashionable pa-times are calculated to de press and ruin a nation it is not to be believed what influence public diversions have on the spirit and manners of a people the creeks uiselj saw this and made a very serious affair of their public sports for the same rea son it will perhaps seem worthy the care of our legislature to regulate the public diversions by an absolute prohibi tion of those which have a direct tendency to corrupt our morals as well as by a re formation of the drama which when rightly managed is such a noble enter tainment and gave those fine lessons of morality and good sense to the athenians of old and to our british gentry above a century ago ; but for these last ninety yens hath entertained us for the most part with such wretched things as spoil instead of improving the taste and man ners of the audience those who arc at tentive to such propositious only as may till their pockets will probably slight these things as trifles below the care of the legislature but i am sure all honest thinking men must lament to see their country run headlong into all those lux urious follies which it is evident have been fatal to other nations and will un doubtedly prove fatal to us also if a time ly stop be not put to them â€” berkeley's essays i ii â– i l_-_l â€” llll-h lllllll i lllilllll hi 11-ii.mi ii all so rt s a home-ruler a man's wife moody is jus forty and holds his forty well v 1 herald the millennium has begun in baltimore oysters are fifteen cents a bushel there there docs seem to be something cure ons about this blue-glass hawk-eye the residence of gilbert at fremont was burnt hist week there is a new paper to be started in . wilkesboro to be called the will st a company is being formed to siart a road steamer to ply between states ville and fayetteville prof proctor says there are sea-ser pents 130 feet long and he never owned a sea-side hotel either a kentucky debating society lias lieen discussing the question : which is the bottom of a buckwheat cake i a feature of a recent charitable enter tainment at wonsocket r i was a game chess with young people fancifully at tired is the pieces young man court not suffering you can put in youi time to much better ad vantage in courting some nice young wo man saturday sight why should we celebrate washington's birthday more than mine .'" asked a teach er recause in never told a lie shout ed a little boy a sweet little hoy only eight years old walked into a teachers examination at oswego and bawled out '* annie your fellow is down to the house '." mr lames v newman one of the pro prietors of the wilson express has sold out his interest and retired and the ex press will in future be published by a company the prospect for rebuilding davenport female college is says the topic very flattering additional subscriptions are coining in and the timbers are being got ten together for the building a traveler stepped off a train and asked it boy : sonny what is the quickest way to get to the central depot .'" run in answered and set the example by get ting out ofthe wii pretty fast mr beecher says a million dollars is a very poem we desire to stab ti at this article of poem will lie accepted ii ... la te crowd out advertisements to make roi ui for it rochester bemoerat